COMMENTARY

Table 1

Shows the total planned Education Spending by the LEA but excluding capital financing.

A comparison of years is shown below

 

 

2002/03

2001/02

Ref

 

£000’s

£000’s

1.1.5

Individual Schools Budgets

282,339

*269,191

1.1.6

Standards Fund

8,912

6,694

 

 

 

 

 

LEA Activities within the Local Schools Budget

 

 

1.2.12

Strategic Management

10,353

10,369

1.3.4

Specific Grants

2,108

1,796

1.4.10

Special Education

11,695

12,630

1.5

School Improvement

4,921

3,781

1.6.13

Access

21,680

19,097

1.7

Total LEA Activities Within the LSB

50,757

47,673

1.8

Total Expenditure within LSB**

342,008

323,559

1.9

Inter authority Recoupment

381

373

1.10

Total Expenditure on Schools

342,388

323,932

2.7

Non School Funding

10,846

9,092

3

Total NON Capital Expenditure

353,234

333,024

4

Capital Expenditure from Revenue

2,018

2,029

5

Education Revenue Expenditure

(Excluding Financing Charges)

355,253

335,053

8

Education Standard Spending Assessment

340,374

319,779

9

Capital Expenditure

11,142

16,831

1.1.5 Individual Schools Budgets

* This includes the Schools Standards Grant of £10,109.and 6th Form funding from the LSC.

** It is a DfES requirement that at least 87 % of the adjusted LSB is delegated to schools.

After adjusting the LSB, in accordance with DfES regulations, 87% is delegated to schools.

1.2 Strategic Management £10.369m

1.2.1 Statutory/Regulatory Duties £5.222m

This includes statutory financial, employment and planning duties, IT systems support and consultation with Governing bodies.

The DfES state that this should not be more than £60 per pupil

Budget per pupil = £46.08 compared with £48 in 2001/02.

1.2.2/3 Premature Retirement and Redundancy Costs £2.604

The cost of financing existing retirements and funding any additional premature retirements or redundancies

 

 

1.2.4 School Specific Contingency £0.581m

This is used to correct errors in calculating the budget share, fund pupil turbulence factors and any events of an exceptional nature.

1.2.5.1 to 1.2.11 £1.945m

This covers:-
    1. Supply cover mainly for maternity leave and other exceptional circumstances
    2. Joint user arrangements with district councils for swimming pools
    3. Licences and subscriptions for all schools. E.g. copyright, performing rights
    4. Miscellaneous initiative as detailed in the Annex to Table 1

1.3 Specific Grants £2.108m(net)

This relates to the Standards Fund Grant which are not devolved to schools or classed as capital and other Non-Standards Fund Specific Grants - Class size grant, grants for threshold payments and New Opportunities Fund (NOF).

1.4 Special Education £11.695m

Includes funding on services supporting pupils with special educational needs, These pupils may be in school or placed with a pupil referral unit or the visiting teachers service or placed in an out-county school.

1.5 School Improvement £4.921m

This covers the cost of preparing, reviewing and implementing the Education Development Plan.

1.6 Access £21.680m

This covers planning of places, buildings, attendance and transporting pupils to and from school.

2.7 Non School Expenditure £10.846m

This includes education for the under-fives outside schools. It includes a grant for the Early Years Development Plan and a grant towards some places for 3 years old.

4 & 9 Capital Expenditure £2.018m and £11,142m(net)

All Capital expenditure funded through Capital Resources, New Deal for Schools or Standards Fund Grant is included under these headings. The Standards Fund Grant will include NGfL as prescribed by the DfES.

8 Education Standard Spending Assessment £340.374m

This is the money that the government has allowed for education in its calculation of Local Authority Funding

 

Table 2A

This is a listing of all schools. It gives a per pupil budget share for each school together with the Standards Fund devolved as at 1 April 2002 and the notional SEN budget which is included in the school’s budget share.

Table 2B

This is listing of all former GM schools. It shows the amount of transitional funding for each school.

Table 3

This gives details of the individual elements of the scheme.

Table 4

This gives a school by school analysis of the individual elements that make up the budget share.

 

 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

AWPA

Age Weighted Pupil Allocation

BMF

Building Maintenance Funding

CERA

Capital Expenditure Revenue Account

DfES

Department for Education and Skills

EDP

Education Development Plan

FE

Further Education

FMS Regs

Financing of Maintained Schools (England) Regulations

FTE

Full or Whole Time Equivalents

ISB

Individual Schools Budget

LEA

Local Education Authority

LSB

Local Schools Budget

LSC

Learning Skills Council

PRC

Premature Retirement Compensation

NGfL

National Grid for Learning

NOF

New Opportunities Fund

SEN

Special Education Needs

SSG

Schools Standards Grant

VA

Voluntary Aided